In the mid-2000s, family films seemingly had one goal: find the next Harry Potter. Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings movies proved there was an audience for large-scale fantasy novel adaptations, and the Harry Potter movies proved that magical stories about British children were the hip new thing.
Twenty years ago, one movie got closer than any other to capturing the hearts of children everywhere, and 20 years later, it’s still a diamond in the rough that’s about to get a makeover.
